About mik's ReVeNGe Networks
mik's ReVeNGe is a supportive online community of friends, gamers, and digital artists. We provide that community with the tools needed to network and communicate.
In 2004 mik's ReVeNGe began as a Half-life 2 DM community, running unique servers with custom commands, physics, and effects and now 8 years later, mR has grown into a very large diverse community.
Check our Server page for a list of dedicated servers we run; some including Minecraft, Team Fortress 2, and RP servers.
We intend to run a strong and fun gaming experience for
Once you join, you'll never leave!!!
-mik
The History of Mikes Revenge
In 2004, mik was hosting a SETI server (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and playing Doom multiplayer.
mik would always play doom together with a player named Darlene, and whenever she created a server she always named it "Darlene's Revenge".
After playing Half-Life 2: Deathmatch after it was released on November 30, 2004, mik began hosting a game server with a friend that he
could basically use to mess around with, and decided he would name the server mik's ReVeNGe.
Not soon after that, he learned how to mess with source physics and had members joining, like ThrowingChicken and Paperthintelevision.
Early 2005, mik founded the first website for mR - it was a geocities based website with general server info.
The Half-life 2 DM map "Hometown 1999" (http://www.smartzenegger.nl/maps/hometown.html ) was
later discovered and set as the default map on mik's server.
This surprisingly generated a lot of traffic, bringing in a lot more members, some that would help solidify the foundation of mR, forever.
His server's rank jumped all the way to the top of the 2nd percentile, rated 12th in HL2DM and his webpage started getting hits. ( http://i.imgur.com/OXvdH.jpg ) (The server's highest rank was 8. However it was not recorded.)
Late 2005, Papertintelevision setup Invision Power Board Forums as a primary way for people to socialize outside of the server and to tell people wtf is
going on. The website at the time was mR.j-prod.com
mik began to implement a lot of commands (
http://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/T...-46-35.jpg
) into the mik's Revenge Server using eventscripts by Mattie (http://mattie.net/cs/ ). He added commands like
!jumpwalk which resulted in launching a player upward, allowing a player to glide across a map, and added !spider which made a client take steps over
props. There were also special effect commands including;
!line - created a dotted line from the ground to the sky where a player was at.
!halo - formed a halo around a players head.
!ring - pulsed a ring outward from a players feet.
Mani was another plugin added to the server, allowing for votemap, rtv, and administration of the server.
On the new site's homepage, mik answers the question, "What is mik's ReVeNGe?"
mik's ReVeNGe, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Servers tend to Role Play, No-Kill, and Deathmatch Styles of Gameplay!!! With over 100 Custom Maps, Custom Votes,
Fast Download, and a TON of Custom Commands, we intend to run a strong and fun gaming experience for all!!! So come on and join the fun!!!
-mik
mik created a build system which allowed for the spawning and deletion of props ( http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/T..._large.jpg ) and the
ability to rotate and color props. This lead to the creation of some wicked builds.
A money system was added to the servers, with an effective lottery and bet system all while generating money the longer you played. This system allowed
players to buy weapons and npcs, things the build system could not offer.
A musicmenu and skinmenu were also added, giving a player the ability to play music (clientside) or change their skin.
Scripting became a popular thing to do after it exploded by its discovery. If sv_cheats were on, a client had the ability to run a config file containing
different scripts which allowed for different results.
example:
Prop_physics_create props_junk/watermelon01.mdl
ent_setname fireball
ent_fire fireball addoutput "renderfx 5"
ent_fire fireball sethealth 99999
ent_fire fireball color 0
wait;wait;wait;wait;wait
ent_create env_fire_trail
ent_fire env_fire_trail addoutput "targetname fball"
ent_fire fball setparent fireball
This created an invisible watermelon on fire that players could throw about.
The abuse of commands became increasingly popular in the servers. Players spammed props and effects and killed each other when it was stated not to for
build modes.
Between autumn and summer of 2006 Michael was made admin along with others, including Bob_smith and Sophie, to helped keep order in the servers.
There was also a grave deal of hacking, using point_servercommand in scripts allowed players to obtain rcon, or change server values as if they
were actual admins. Players were also able to exec commands on other players like making Bob_smith say "i'm Gay". Not only this but the Mani-Plugin was
also very vulnerable, players were able to access parts of it and hardlock the servers (crashing them but the don't restart).
On July 2nd, 2006, Paper announced "Report Those Mother-Effers!"
It's finally summer and I (Paper) will be going on vacation from july 7th to July 15th. I've returned to attend to the forum and the site for just
a short while. There's been some crazy happening's with the server's lately and now we've ended up with only two left for HL2
M. But within the
time they've been up, everything is going smooth. mik has opened up a new outlet for angered players on the servers where you can report any abuse
from players such as swearing, un-fair play, hacking (this is mR, people! There's no need for hacking!), and just plain old abuse to the server
itself. So, snitches, you can report all of that in the Report Abuse Here thread in the mR forum by reporting mik's post to a moderator with your
problem, which will go to every admin's PM box. hopefully, that'll get an easier access between players and admins.
"If you are not abusing you are not playing" became they ideology at the time as abuse reached a peak.
By then mR had 2 severs one running hometown1999, and the other running rp_cscdesert_v2 (
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/T...v20031.jpg
)
August 20th, 2006 Paper announced "Bullet Timing!"
I've put up a bullet timing page on mikes-revenge.com. It's dedicated to a bullet timing script I found browsing the net one day. This script will
allow you to go into the matrix in single player HL2. Check out the script and video demo here.
We've had a run-in with "civil Protection" lately, an strict RP clan that tames servers to a serious Role Play mode... well, good luck getting through mR - see the full beef here.
Yes, the forum did go down again I'm sorry about that, but we're back up and I'm positive it won't happen
again. I'm making backups every day now.
Around this time we began to deal with copycat Servers, like "civil Protection" and "Orbit". The server admins of those other servers would join mR and
gather ideas and our steamid's and ban us from their servers so that we couldn't see what they were doing, copying our server. Often players would come
into the mR servers spamming commands from these other servers like "nokill" and would also join the server using their roleplay names or had included in
their name "nokill".
Tag protection was implemented to prevent players from imitating mR members or admins, and was also used to remove nokill from a players name when they
joined.
On October 2th, 2006 Davis announced "New Layout!"
Welcome to the new mik's ReVeNGe. I hope all you guys enjoy this new feature! We now support hosting and its ONLINE! Wikipedia is down until
further notice. And! We are finding a new skin for forums! And also if you find any page that is not found please email me at 404@mikes-revenge.com
and we will fix it ASAP!
On October 9th, 2006, Project "Skyboat" was announced to the public by Paperthintelevision
A new concept map has been created by our mastermind, Throwing Chicken. And it's quite ravishing. it's concept; A Sailboat, but one that flies -
hence the name, Skyboat. so far, we have a team working on the map, getting it known, and finalizing things for people. it's steady and smooth so
far. A new webpage was solely dedicated to the new project on mikes-revenge. It's up in the Media section.
http://throwingchicken.com/offsite/skyboatlobby.jpg
On October 23rd, 2006 | Skyboat Update #2 was announced to the public by Paperthintelevision
Several new pictures have been put up for the design and the creation of th actual map. The advertising section of the project is getting all
corners of the MR commute (litterally, I'm putting in an actual effort!) but anyhow...Random numbers has started on developing what looks like the
outline or proportional map. Throwing chicken has made a bran-new sketch for the engine room of the skyboat. this is where a bundle of things will
happen. AND the map has been featured on the main site (above)!
http://throwingchicken.com/offsite/skybo...20room.jpg
http://throwingchicken.com/offsite/skybo...20door.jpg
By Sat November 25th, 2006 mR had a total of eleven admins;
mik, Paper, Sophie, ThrowingChicken, Pheonix, Michael, Rand0mNumbers, Bob_Smith, ( ^_^ ), Silence, Pcpakamo, and LostBrother.
We began a clan as members poured into the forums, this started by invite only into the clan and by clan manager approval, and who better than Soph to be
the clan manager.
The clan consisted of 33 active members, all of which played hl2dm.
Six222, Antlion_King, B1x, Babeboom, Blaze, Chris0494, Crowbar_Man, Dracula, Dragon, Easyjet, Flatcher, FullMetal Alchemist, •Ghost•,
H4Z3, Hl_Guy, Jaybird, Karuberutsu, KelloggsKhaos, King Arthur, Master_Frag, Mojoho, MorpheusOmikron, Patio, Redrum, Rockagie, Sgt.firefly, Shadow,
Shortbus, Starfighterjesus, Tanner55111, ThirdHeart, Wolf_rising
At this time we had some pending members; Fred, Phantom, Tron, One Hit, and Rambo, and some regulars;
Tuna_Can, Mark, Lumii, AceGec3D, Singe, Dr. Timothy, Cougar Tail Furry Kid.
On March 14th, 2006 Tournament.com began covering server cost for mik each month in exchange to be an affiliate.
Tournament.com, an online gaming community where you can win money for playing HL2M or CS
matches, have contacted us about affiliation.
-Paperthintelevision
http://web.archive.org/web/2007080119071.../image.gif
At this time new features on mik's servers were actived.
"We've created our own Phys Gun for HL2M, you can test it out on the server by using the
command +pgun."
-Paperthintelevision
mR benefits were also activated, mR's were given commands like !heatvison, !deathbeam, and were given the deletion tool to delete spawned props belonging
to others.
Admins were also given the right to carry the admin guns. These included; the slay gun, ban gun, kick gun, freeze gun, burn gun, and teleport gun.
April 16th, 2007, Paperthintelevision announces that we moved to a new host, Godaddy.com due to some previous troubles involving that last host.
Mark releases his first version of the mR plugin for hl2dm which made the build system more efficient, allowed useres to save their spawns, and contains
its own code for mR scripters.
In June 2007 mik opened mR applications to the public, these are around the dates in which they were approved;
Wolf_rising - June 1st, 2007
Allanah - June 5th, 2007
Flatcher - (reapplied June 8th, 2007)
construction man - June, 9th 2007
Chris0494 - June 10th, 2007
Tanner55111 - July 8th, 2007
Shadow - July 11th, 2007
Babeboom - July 19th, 2007
•Ghost• - July 21st, 2007
Rockagie - July 27th, 2007
DarkWolf2 - August 8th, 2007
Mojoho - August 13th, 2007
Hl_Guy - August 13th, 2007
H4Z3 - (came back September 21st, 2007)
ThirdHeart - October 5th, 2007
FullMetal Alchemist - October 19th, 2007
Blaze - October 28th, 2007
dAv3 - October 31st, 2007
Doctor_Who/DrKamina - August 15th, 2007
Jaybird - November 3rd, 2007
Karuberutsu - November 7th, 2007
Shortbus - November 11th, 2007
Easyjet - November 29th 2007
Antlion_King -16th December 2007
(^_^) - (reapplied December 17th, 2007)
B1x - December 28th, 2007
Crowbar_Man - December 31st, 2007
Fusion - January 7th, 2008
Strugger - January 18th, 2008
AnythIng - January 15th, 2008
Fox McCloud - February 15th, 2008
bbuckhout (mr cougar) - February 26th, 2008
Onehit - March 16th, 2008
Tron - March 19th, 2008
Fred U - March 19th, 2008
Phantom - March 19th, 2008
On October 15, 2007, a New Map By F.Kalkman was released, this became hl2dm's new default map for roleplay. (HL2_Amsterville_2006) http://www.smartzenegger.nl/maps/amsterville.html
On October 10, 2007 Team Fortress 2 was released and soon mR had a stock server that populated quick when one or two people became active in the server.
Half-life 2: Episiode Two and Portal was also release around this time, these were big topics for discussion in the forums.
Here is the homepage from November 2007 http://mikes-revenge.net/archive/# that we had, it contained a
minisite which paperthintelevision created that summed up mR, showing news and announcments, servers, and media.
In February of 2008 babeboom fired his lazer ( http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4kf0f_...videogames )
By Sat April 5th, 2008 we created two divisions of administration, super admins (mR^2) and server admins.
The super admins had rcon, whereas, server admins just had basic admin commands.
Super Admins
mik, Paperthintelevision, Jamie, Kelloggs, and LostBrother
Server Admins
( ^_^ ), Ghost, Haze, Michael, Pcpakamo, Phoenix, Soppy, Starfighterjesus, and TheWorst
[mR] Clan
Ajax, Antlion King, AnythIng, B1x, Babeboom, Blaze, Crowbar Man, Dragon, Easyjet, Flatcher, Fred U, Fullmetal Alchemist, Hl_Guy, Jaybird,
Karuberutsu, KingArthur, MadMan, Master_Frag, Mojoho, Patio, and Redrum, Rockagie, Sean, Sgt.Firefly, Shadow, Six222, Skippy, Tanner55111,
ThirdHeart, Tron, and Wolf_Rising
Pending [mR]
Phantom
On March 22, 2008 we had one of our many fucking awesome parties http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4sx0e_...videogames.
On June 7th, 2008, Lostbrother tried an experimental community project, assigning tasks to members and creating "jobs" [mR] Abuse, Artist, and Banker
teams, (http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/T...groups.jpg )
October 21, 2008, Bioshock was released, this created a lot of hype within the community, later on, on April 23th, 2010, Doctor Who/DrKamina created the
CoR-CityOfRapture Minecraft Server as dedication to this wicked game.
On 02/10/2009 at 06:56 PM, mik issues a farewell as he leaves for a temp break.
Well it's been a pleasure but I feel that I must go for good. Thanks to everyone throughout the years for all the support and fun and good times.
I'll never forget you guys, most of you have been real friends, others only because I was in charge of the servers. That's ok, it's understandable.
Anyways, I hope mR will continue and thrive as it has without me. Keep the spirit alive guys and don't let mR die.
I've enjoyed watching this place grow and have loved every minute I've spent making HL2DM a better game.
Good Bye mR... Maybe I will return, but no where in the near future.
Much Love!
-mik
Lostbrother ran the forums and servers until mik returned on August 2, 2009
At this time we ran four mR HL2DM servers
mik's ReVeNGe |fast dL| ** BuiLD / nO-KiLL ** 16 Player Slot
· Mikes Revenge 1 default map is rp_wardogs. There is no killing is permitted at all, period. This server's purpose is for building with the spawn
system.
mik's ReVeNGe2 |fast dL| ** BuiLD / Role-PlaY ** 13 Player Slot
· Mikes Revenge 2 default map is freespace06_v1. There is no killing permitted, unless you are Role Playing and it involves killing. This server's
purpose is for Role Playing and other activities.
mik's ReVeNGe3 |fast dL| ** WhAtEVeR ** 16 Player Slot
· Mikes Revenge 3 default map is rp_omgcity_final. This is the whatever server. If everyone is DMing, go along with it, if everyone is RPing, go along
with it...
mik's PrIvATe sErVeR ** 12 Player Slot
· Mikes Revenge Private server default map is Castle_Warfare. This server is exclusively for mR members and used for holding special events. This
server is password protected
mik Returns! on Aug 2nd, 2009 after he left for a break.
On September 1st, 2009 Diggity_Dan introduced Tinychat to [mR], this became a regular thing to do for over a month, mik's ReVeNGe would join and talk
using webcams.
San Andreas Multiplayer was big at this time, people would join Tinychat and mess around in GTA together, building import cars, killing each other, and
doing stunts.
In January of 2010 mR switched over to vBulletin Forums as an alternative to Invision Power Board Forums due to a lack of features needed by the community
and because of the inconvenience of a recent database lose (Davis).
This month mR also formed its mR facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/298777570055/ )
mR teamspeak formed after the hit of tinychat, on January 17th, 2010. This was the first attempt to get TS active with the mR community, it did not get off
the ground just yet...
Sophie resigned from mR around this time. She will be missed.
Lostbrother before and around January 30th, 2010; created custom skins for the forums, and optimized alot of code within it to make it run smoother and add
additional functions. He began to recoding HL2DM Servers in python and with marks plugin due to the increase of crashes with the c++ version of the
servers.
He also released a few maps;
· mR-freespace
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r7/B1...-48-35.png
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r7/B1...-35-45.png
· This map was a redesign of freespace_v2, using new textures, new lighting, and included a floating pyramid, and a hell level below the map. This was
a tribute to Sophie's idea.
· mR-freespace version pineapples & mangos incorporated the mR skyboat project done by Throwing Chicken and RandomNumbers into freespace. The
skyboat flew above the city. This involved turning the skyboat into individual models rather than static props in order for the map to render.
· mR-freespace-revolution was a completely new design, it places the city in a corner and contains a working rail track system and a large bridge that
spands across the map.
The mR wiki was revived after being dead since our first forum around 2007 on February 2nd, 2010. This included tutorials, commands, and server info.
(^_^) didn't like teamspeak so he attempted to launch a Ventrilo server on Febuary 2nd, 2010, very little people gave it attention and it soon died.
Flatcher was made admin on February 28th, 2010 and administrated our new TF2 server.
Master Frag on March 2nd was made admin and became channel admin for the Teamspeak server, this time around, TS lifted off. This may have cause the slight
downfall of the forums. Discussions now happened inside teamspeak rather than textually on the forums.
mR Minecraft was founded by Michael around April 5th, 2010. At this time it was just one server running minecraft classic. This was merely an experiment
for mR which later exploded into success for the whole community.
On April 7th, 2010, Lostbrother finalized the mR HL2DM server, this included paintball mode, tracers, Mario fireball gun, double jump, and others.
( ^_^ ) (face) harassed members of the mR community, hacking emails between members and caused issues, resulting in a few members leaving mR.
B1x, Master Frag, and LB started Pariahs-Riposte which was renamed as Isotropic-Overture. Crowbar man, B1x's sister K0ttin-K0b, and Sophie all became
active members.
The goal was to create a stable platform in which it's residents can grow and develop their abilities intellectually, creatively, and socially. Collective
collaboration, creating servers and art, at the highest quality possible.
"Our goal is to turn each server into an individual work of art, supplementing it's chosen game and style in a way that few other servers do."
Doctor Who/DrKamina created the CoR-CityOfRapture Minecraft Server (It first started on Pariah's Riposte, then moved to mR, for full detail) on April 23th,
2010. This server was dedicated to the recreation of the city of Rapture from the popular game Bioshock.
Beginning of the BRB phone era
Six222 came back on April 24th, 2010, and started coding for HL2DM Server with Marks Plugin, this time involved leaving the mani and eventscripts plugin
and doing all code entirely on the mR plugin.
Milo after being away for a while came back and worked with EGN on April 25th, 2010.
Due to the high cost of running so many servers EGN and mR formed a hosting merge, they hosted servers on the same box and split the bill, this happened on
April 29th, 2010. The EGN community dies on June 16th, 2010.
In May Doctor_Who/DrKamina was made Admin as he had great direction with the Minecraft server.
On May 29th, 2010, Madman redesigned the homepage (to be more suited to the rising minecraft community) from scratch! It contained server info, about mR,
forum and wiki links.
On June 11th, 2010 Long time members Shadow and Towelie are made admin.
On September 9th, 2010, it was announced that Jackflash, PurpleHistory, Apclear, Kulhu, Smallishone made mR.
September 30th, 2010, HL2DM now ran on the orange box engine, this made that game beautiful. This unfortunately broke the mR plugin and all commands.
November 9th, 2010 the wiki is updated and contains info for minecraft as well as hl2dm.
In just two months after making mR, Jackflash is made Admin!
"Wanna see my glasses?" -Flatcher
Mark ported his plugin over to run with orange box for all orange box engine based games, at this time Six222 came back and began working with him on the
HL2DM Server which was now running on orangebox.
By Febuary 18th, 2011 Six222 has HL2DM server up and running basic commands on marks plugin for orangebox.
On April 18, 2011 Portal 2 was released
As having issues with the website host because of the shoutbox's lag, Lladar attempts to replace the shoutbox with IRC on June 3rd, 2011. The IRC still
exists today but is not active. http://mikes-revenge.net/forum/chat.php
Russian Invasion- involving database attacks, MySQL injects, and DDosing which showed mR how vulnerable the old forums were. As a result of this, the
forums were switched over to myBB, and the database ported over so now information was lost.
On August 23rd, 2011, DABAMF, Mitch, and Shadow were made admin as well as Sammy who was made Terraria Admin. Kinglier, MP29, Catykins, DemonTheGringo made
mR.
Teemu officially became "da best" on September 1st, 2011.
September 17th, 2011, Llader created a twitter account to tweet promotions, events, and updates.
On November 7th, 2011 mik & Doctor_Who/DrKamina start Terre_Connue RP Project Server
Between Nov 16th to 21st of 2011 - mR took a Trip to Minecon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X8xFSj-4OQ
Lladar resigned from mR on November 16th, 2011
On December 27, 2011 Munchhead and Runb4ikillyou made mR.
On January 3rd, 2012 Pascal123 made mR.
On January 31st, 2012 OinkRider29 made mR.
On Febuary 7th, 2012 San Andreas Multiplayer starts up again
On Febuary 15th, 2012 Sweetnichd19 made mR.
On March 17th, 2012 mR starts up a Gmod RP Server.
On April 17th, 2012 LostBrother comes back.
On April 20th, 2012, the mR applications open to the public, before, you had to be invited to mR.
"Oh gawd. the floodgates are open."
-Michael
Four days later:
"Applications are now closed. I apologize if you did not get the chance to apply. However due to half of this communities lack of taking this
seriously I feel now is not the time to allow new members.
All current applicants are still pending and will be reviewed accordingly."
-mik
On May 8th, 2012 Babeboom was finally made admin and Holypengin and Ovu were made server OPs, and FutileResistance, michielcx, and Dutchmerc were made mR.
On May 8th, 2012 The mik's ReVeNGe History book began to compiled by the hand of Lostbrother.
Last Updated: May 10, 2012